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Mageia 9: Key Auth Issue in perl-Authen-SASL CVE-2025-40918 MGASA-2025-0285

mageia
Calendar Grey November 13, 2025
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Updated perl-Authen-SASL packages resolve a critical security issue affecting Mageia, with vulnerabilities fixed.
MGASA-2025-0285 - Updated perl-Authen-SASL packages fix security vulnerability

Summary

Description: Authen::SASL::Perl::DIGEST_MD5 versions 2.04 through 2.1800 for Perl generates the cnonce insecurely. (CVE-2025-40918)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34489

- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/07/16/5

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40918

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory information leak important authentication Mageia perl-authen-sasl

Resolution

SRPMS

- 9/core/perl-Authen-SASL-2.160.0-13.1.mga9

Severity
important
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Publication date: 13 Nov 2025
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2025-0285.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2025-40918

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory information leak important authentication Mageia perl-authen-sasl

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